To date, only one person has been jailed in connection to the US torture program, writes Alyssa Rohricht - the man who blew the whistle. His sentence must now be quashed and this true American hero set free and compensated.
… Torture: Thou shalt not bear honest witness … | 27th January 2014 Comment Human Rights Torture waterboard.png To date, only one … has been jailed in connection to the US torture program, writes Alyssa Rohricht - the …
Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. Now he is taking Unocal, one of the US companies that trades with the murderous regime, to court. One of the most wanted men in Burma, talks to The Ecologist.
… Tortured Soul Jeremy Smith | 8th July 2004 … many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. … but I did not have any information. So they tortured me brutally for three days. Before …
Last week BP's Peter Mather - who claims to have 'green and yellow oil' flowing in his veins - took to the airwaves on Radio 4's The Bottom Line'. Evan Davies asked some tough questions, writes Chris Garrard - but failed to mention the shocking case of Colombian trades unionist Gilberto Torres, kidnapped and tortured for 42 days by paramilitaries employed by BP's joint venture partner.
… BP arts sponsorship chief on kidnap and torture allegations Chris Garrard Art Not Oil … unionist Gilberto Torres, kidnapped and tortured for 42 days by paramilitaries … its alleged involvement in his kidnap and torture in Casanare, Colombia, by a …
An illegal cross-border trade in endangered wild Asian elephants to serve Thailand's tourist industry is threatening the future of the species, an undercover investigation by the Ecologist Film Unit (EFU) has revealed
… Ecologist Film Unit Undercover Natural World tortured elephant.jpg An illegal cross-border … are tied up, confined, starved, beaten and tortured in order to 'break their spirits'. It …
It's easy to forget that Julian Assange - reviled by mainstream media, hounded by Sweden's judiciary, 'red-listed' by Interpol, publicly attacked by the US defense secretary - remains an innocent man, 'wanted' for nothing more than questioning, writes John Pilger. His disgraceful treatment dishonours only his persecutors.
… of refugees. The rendition and subsequent torture of two Egyptian political refugees in … was condemned by the UN Committee against Torture, Amnesty International and Human … to the UN Special Rapporteur, amounted to torture. Few doubt that should the US get …
West Papua is one of the world’s forgotten conflicts, where human rights violations are endemic. Now Lush has taken up the cause. Ruth Styles has more
… Lush Campaigns Smell Of Freedom Human Rights Torture Health And Beauty holding.jpg West … of the Koteka Tribal Assembly, have faced torture as a result of their peaceful protests …
A 7-year old boy has been shot by park guards in Kaziranga national park, India, visited in April by Prince William and Kate, which operates a strict 'shoot first' policy. The incident highlights the government's wider efforts to evict tribal peoples from their forests in the name of conservation.
… tribal people , who face arrest and beatings, torture and even death in the name of … have repeatedly testified to beatings and torture at the hands of eco-guards. Likewise …
Julian Assange's struggle for freedom is one of law and justice against vengeful state power determined at all costs to darken the light of truth that Wikileaks has cast into the murkiest of places, writes John Pilger. Now, after a long series of moral and legal victories, his release may finally be drawing near.
… sentenced to 35 years in prison, having been tortured during his long pre-trial detention. … of refugees. The rendition and subsequent torture of two Egyptian political refugees in … was condemned by the UN Committee against Torture, Amnesty International and Human …
WWF’s support for 'fortress conservation' has led to serious human rights abuses for indigenous peoples, writes Lewis Evans, and nowhere more so than in Cameroon, where the Baka are considered trespassers and poachers in their own ancestral forests. A formal complaint against WWF's behaviour is now in process.
… be subjected to beatings, harassment and torture - as the Baka and neighboring tribes … in the Cameroonian government who said: "We torture [suspected poachers] when they don't … that had just unofficially endorsed torture. Since 2012, several further …
Reporting from the frontline of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at the environmental situation in Tibet.
… unknown. Sources indicate he too has been tortured, like so many others. London-based … dossier alleging the widespread use of torture against dissident Tibetan prisoners. … more difficult issues raised by the use of torture, and stopped far short of calling for …
'Conservation' is destroying those who've nurtured their surroundings for timeless generations, writes Stephen Corry - the Indigenous Peoples who have actually fashioned those precious places that we now mistake as 'natural'. It's time for a new conservation ethic that recognizes them as senior partners - not as 'squatters'' and 'poachers' to be evicted and criminalized.
… forests. But at least they stop short of the torture to which the Baka 'Pygmy' people in … even suspected of it, they'll be beaten and tortured like the Baka. This has been going on … which tribal people face arrest and beatings, torture and death, while fee-paying big game …
The ongoing battle between US tree-sitters and North America’s big logging firms pitches some of the world’s most determined activists against some of its most ruthless corporations. It is a battle that the tree-sitters simply must not lose.
… happens a lot. PL has killed the tree and tortured the tree-sitters for no financial … logging across Guerrero, was arrested, tortured and sentenced to eight years in jail …
Indonesia's murderous campaign of military repression in its stolen territory of West Papua continues, writes Jason MacLeod. But a courageous 50-year struggle for human rights and freedom is finally bearing fruit, with growing recognition of West Papua's right to nationhood among its Pacific neighbours. Real hopes of a better future are rising above the blood and pain.
… in the campaign. Some of those were tortured. Officers from the Mobile Police … Fredi Wenda, a male relative of Benny's, was tortured and stabbed to death by members of …
Kara Moses reports on a group of 10-year-olds from Holly Trees Primary School who - by fundraising for Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Partnership - have helped secure the future of a rare Namibian plant that was virtually extinct in the wild
… herself why she ever signed up for this water torture. The reason: a rare but rather …
Last week the Upper Tribunal of the Royal Courts of Justice ordered Defra to release key information about the badger cull based on a 'public interest' argument, writes Lesley Docksey. Could this judgment open a new era of transparent and accountable government?
… oft-repeated words "never been complicit in torture " . Except that, despite denials, we …
The defence secretary, 'comedians' on BBC Radio's News Quiz, and the entire media commentariat have ganged up this weekend up to pour mockery and poisonous lies over Julian Assange and the UN's human rights jurists, writes Jonathan Cook. As they attempt to fight off the UN's 'guilty' verdict against the British state, they are putting dissidents at risk everywhere.
… as they face illegal detention, abuse and torture is being turned into a laughing stock …
Whales, dolphins and porpoises have no respite from oil and chemicals, fishing nets, shipping, noise pollution and a host of other dangers brought about by man's unrelenting destruction of the oceans, says Anthony Wall
… with this rising racket. It’s self-inflicted torture. But what of the other creatures who …
As Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy takes a strong lead in Burma's elections, Nafeez Ahmed warns that the military will remain the real power in the land. And as UK, EU, US, Chinese and Gulf state energy corporations compete to exploit Burma's hydrocarbons, don't expect them to denounce the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya, and anyone else in the way of their oil and gas infrastructure.
… levels. The ISCI report catalogues the rape, torture, massacres, arbitrary detention, land …
Brian May is best known as lead guitarist for the rock band Queen. But as Lesley Docksey discovers, he is also an astrophysicist, and a committed - and highly effective - advocate for Britain's wild animals, including badgers put at risk by England's cull programme.
… that feels it is their right to persecute and torture wildlife for sport" ? Was it …
We humans have much to learn from our kissing cousins, the peaceful, empathic, playful, sensual and highly sexual Bonobos, writes Susan Block. Rather than play out the myth of ancestral 'killer apes', better follow the 'Bonobo Way', and extend our love to all living beings and Earth herself.
… the devastating terror and the cynical torture need to be addressed with something … anti-war, anti-occupation, anti-nuke, anti-torture and police accountability movements …
'We all live in Khimki Forest' has become the rallying cry of a local forest defense campaign. Goldman Prize winner Evgenia Chirikova describes what it's like to be green in Russia the why a culture of impunity and corruption risks destroying the country's natural heritage
… by government officials] was arrested and tortured to death in custody. There are a …